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V93.60XA vs V94.81

V93.60XA (Machinery accident on board merchant ship, initial encounter) compared with V94.81 (Water transport accident involving military watercraft), from the official CMS tabular data. Do not report these codes together: the official tabular list marks them Excludes1.

Relationship

Conflict

Excludes1 conflict

V93.60XA
Machinery accident on board merchant ship, initial encounter
↔
V94.81
Water transport accident involving military watercraft

Not coded here — these two are mutually exclusive.

“civilian water transport accident involving military watercraft (V94.81-)”

An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur together, so the pair should not be reported for the same encounter. The sole exception is when the conditions are documented as unrelated to each other.

Source: CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes; ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a

Can these codes be reported together?

No — do not report together. V93.60XA carries an Excludes1 note covering V94.81: “civilian water transport accident involving military watercraft (V94.81-)”

Sole exception: when the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Side by side

V93.60XAMachinery accident on board merchant ship, initial encounterV94.81Water transport accident involving military watercraft
Billing statusBillableNon-billable header
ClassificationV00-Y99 — External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99)V00-Y99 — External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99)
DefinitionMachinery accident on board merchant ship, initial encounter is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (V93.60A).Water transport accident involving military watercraft is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code (V94.81).
7th characterThe appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V93The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V94
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Derived from the official CMS ICD-10-CM tabular data (FY2026). Not billing advice; verify sequencing rules for the encounter. All data sources